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BIOGRAPHY: HELEN KELLER (1880-1968)
Early life Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. She was the daughter of newspaper editor Captain Arthur Keller and his wife, Kate Adams Keller. At the age of 19 months, Helen was struck with a severe illness (called "brain fever" at the time, it may have been scarlet fever) which left her both blind and deaf. Her deafness made it difficult to learn to speak. She invented 60 of her own signs in order to communicate with her family. Using touch and smell, she explored the world. Her isolation often enraged her, making her kick and scream in frustration. Life with Anne Sullivan At the age of six, Helen's parents took her to see Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who recommended Anne Mansfield Sullivan as a teacher, a post she assumed on March 3, 1887. That April, the miracle occurred in which Helen associated water with the letters "w-a-t-e-r" which her teacher had signed into her hand. Helen learned 30 words the first day and soon learned to sign the alphabet, write and eventually speak. Helen learned to read lips by pressing her fingertips to the speaker's lips and feeling the vibrations and movement. This method, called Tadoma, is extremely difficult; very few master it. Helen had mastered Braille, the manual alphabet and the typewriter by the age of 10. By age 16, she could speak well enough to go to prep school and college. In 1888, Helen and her teacher went to the Perkins School for the Blind, where Miss Sullivan continued to teach her. In 1894 they went on to the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York, and later to a prep school, the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. College In the fall of 1900, Helen Keller entered Radcliffe College, graduating in 1904 with a bachelor of arts degree cum laude. Anne Sullivan stayed with her, int... Please login to view comments from other users.
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